“Peaky Blinders” is a prime example of what is good about streaming TV. This is a show that would have likely not done well on regular TV. However, because of streaming, “Peaky Blinders” slowly grew its audience through word of mouth and became one of the most popular shows on Netflix. Now, we’re finally getting a “Peaky Blinders” film.

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Thanks to Netflix, we have our first look at the “Peaky Blinders” film on the first day of shooting.

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Cillian Murphy can do no wrong right now. The actor starred in one of the biggest films of 2023, “Oppenheimer,” which earned him an Oscar. Now, it appears his next film, “Small Things Like These” is earning just as much acclaim for the actor.

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As seen in the trailer, “Small Things Like These” tells the story of a coal merchant who stumbles into the middle of drama surrounding a local convent.

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Last month, the upcoming “Peaky Blinders” film at Netflix had its first splashy casting with Rebecca Ferguson joining the movie’s ensemble.  But the latest to join the cast may be an even buzzier addition, as THR reports that Barry Keoghan will also star in the upcoming film. Production on the film begins this Fall.

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Nabbing Keoghan is a big coup for “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight, as the Irish actor is in vogue at the moment after inspired performances in “Saltburn” and “The Banshees Of Inisherin.” Keoghan adds the Netflix film to his list of upcoming films, including Andrea Arnold‘s “Bird” (which premiered at Cannes in May), “Bring Them Down,” and Trey Edward Shults‘ latest.

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Lady Jessica (or, if you prefer, Ilsa Faust), meet Tommy Shelby. Deadline reports Rebecca Ferguson has officially joined the cast of Netflix‘s upcoming “Peaky Blinders” movie. The “Dune” and “Mission: Impossible” actress will star alongside Cillian Murphy in the long-awaited film, which, with any luck, will start filming later this year.  No word on Ferguson will play, but, let’s get real: it’s Rebecca Ferguson, she’s going to have a major role.

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After much hemming and hawing and a little bit of teases about his appearance, Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy has been confirmed for Sony’s “28 Years Later” horror thriller.

Sony chief Tom Rothman revealed the news in a new interview with Deadline. “Yes [Murphy will return], but in a surprising way and in a way that grows, let me put it that way,” Rothman said.

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After six dramatic seasons the Irish gang series “Peaky Blinders” came to a close in 2022. Something of a sleeper hit at first, the series seemed to take off during the pandemic when it was on Netflix. Its popularity was arguably at a zenith right as it ended, so series creator Steven Knight envisioned a feature film to top it all off in a big send-off.

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Following his Best Actor Oscar win at the 96th Academy Awards, Irish actor Cillian Murphy is reuniting with Universal Pictures, the distributor of Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture winner “Oppenheimer,” for another period drama, “Blood Runs Coal.” The starring vehicle for Murphy, reported on by Deadline, seemingly takes a page from the world of Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman,” “Killers of The Flower Moon”).

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What’s next for Cillian Murphy after his award-winning performance in “Oppenheimer“? How about returning to his most iconic role before playing the nuclear physicist? Deadline reports that Murphy will reprise his role from the BBC/Netflix series “Peaky Blinders” for Steven Knight‘s upcoming follow-up film. “He definitely is returning for it,” Knight told Birmingham World about Murphy’s involvement.

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There have been numerous times over the course of Cillian Murphy’s career when he could have easily earned his first Academy Award nomination. There was his transformative performance in “Breakfast on Pluto.” His harrowing turn in “28 Days Later.” Or even his acclaimed performance in “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.” But after 20 years into his feature film career, that moment finally arrived with longtime collaborator Christopher Nolan and “Oppenheimer.” And now, Murphy has caped that achievement by winning Best Actor at the 96th Academy Awards.

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Who will be the next James Bond? That’s the question on every 007 fan’s lips since “No Time To Die” hit theaters in 2021. But two and half years later, there’s still no answer, and Bond producer Barbara Broccoli won’t provide one, saying last October that “Bond 26” won’t reach theaters for another “three or four years.” That leaves everyone to speculate on their favorite hypothetical picks, like Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Dev Patel, and James Norton, to name a few.

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Belated legacy sequels are still all the rage in Hollywood, and joining the ranks of this trend is “28 Years Later,” the long-overdue sequel to director Danny Boyle’s zombie/rage-virus thriller, “28 Days Later,” and its sequel “28 Weeks Later.”

While Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland, who are reuniting for the first time in almost two decades, have teased a third film in the rage virus trilogy, one never materialized until just a few weeks ago when the surprise sequel was announced.

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Something eerie is afoot in the small Irish town of Wexford, where coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) raises five young daughters alongside his wife, Eileen (Eileen Walsh). It’s Christmastime 1985, the busiest time of the year for the Furlong family business, but Bill is not feeling like himself. An eerie encounter by the town’s convent brings back memories the man kept stashed away for decades, glimpses of his childhood interrupting his carefully concocted routine — the sun filtered through the big windows of a bright manor as Bill methodically rinses grime off his dirtied hands; flashes of a cold stable surfacing as his daughters chatter about homework around the kitchen table. 

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Thanks to “Oppenheimer,” all of Hollywood wants a piece of Cillian Murphy. So is it any surprise that Sony shelled out a ton for the latest in the “28 Days Later” franchise? THR reports that the studio won the bidding war for a new sequel in the zombie franchise, which comes with an additional sequel if all goes well. As of right now, however, Murphy is only on board officially as an executive producer.

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Thanks to “Oppenheimer” and a Golden Globe victory for Best Actor, Cillian Murphy is one of cinema’s “it” actors of the moment. And it’s a long time coming for the “actor’s actor.” So is it any surprise a drama starring Murphy will open the 2024 Berlinale next month? No, it is not.

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Deadline reports that Irish drama “Small Things Like These” will open this February’s German festival.

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Is that “Peaky Blinders” movie ever happening? After all, it’s been two years since the final season of the hit British series premiered on BBC One. Series creator Steven Knight has an update, as Radio Times reports that Knight is busy with movie’s script, and hopes to start shooting it in mid-2024.

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“I’m just working on the final bits of it at the moment,” Knight told the outlet while speaking about the “Peaky Blinders” ballet “The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby.” I just sit down at the keyboard and start.

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We often wax effusive about movies, their meaning, their craft, their intention, how they are sculpted and shaped, but sometimes we forget about the director’s mantra: that casting is everything and we arguably sometimes take for granted how some movies that seem so perfect, may not work at all without the actors and performers at their center.

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2023 was a great year for movies, see our Best Films Of 2023 list, but let’s be real, so many of these movies were make or break based on their performances.

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As 2023 draws to a close, the Barbenheimer phenomenon still resounds as the year’s most important film event. Two highly anticipated blockbusters, poised in a head-to-head battle in the thick of summer movie season, from two of Hollywood’s premier directors; no wonder the double feature became so highly meme-able. But memes aside, Barbenheimer was a huge success for an industry in crisis, and “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” rank as two of 2023’s best films.

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Nothing has taken the pop-culture world by storm like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” getting released on the same day this summer. The Barbenheimer weekend will go down in history and will forever link the two films. Recently, however, the conversations around “Oppenheimer” have shifted to discussing the importance of physical media, thanks to the film’s director, Christopher Nolan. 

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Nolan made a playful jab at streaming services while speaking out about the physical release of the film, stating, “We put a lot of care and attention into the Blu-ray version… and trying to translate the photography and the sound, putting that into the digital realm with a version you can buy and own at home and put on a shelf so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you.”

Whether or not you agree with Nolan’s statement about the importance of owning physical media, the time has now come for audiences to have the opportunity to own the widely praised and talked about film.

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One of the oddest aspects of filmmaking that fans seem to obsess over is run-time. Back in the old days, well before social media, a film was released and people consumed it. Then, if the director was interested in the idea, a Director’s Cut would eventually see the light of day. But now, people see reports of 4-hour assembly cuts of films and start speculating about all of the footage that isn’t included in the final cut.

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“Oppenheimer” isn’t the first time Cillian Murphy topped a movie that hit the cultural zeitgeist. And yet, stardom didn’t quite spark for the Irish actor after Danny Boyle‘s 2002 genre hit “28 Days Later.” There were daring performances (“Breakfast on Pluto”) and fun villainous paycheck plays (“Red Eye”), but Murphy has spent the past two decades mostly in ensemble and supporting roles (on the big screen of course, but in the U.K.

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Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” finally hits theaters today, his first film since 2020’s “Tenet,” which saw an awkward theatrical release thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. No such worries for this movie, though, as it’s part of Hollywood’s meme-worthy one-two punch at the box-office with Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie.” And while “Barbie” will surely win the box-office battle between the two films this weekend, “Oppenheimer” has the lead right now in critical consensus, sitting at a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes against a 90% for Gerwig’s latest.

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A film adapted from a book entitled “American Prometheus” was not going to be subtle about its inspirations. Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” offers nothing short of a mythological retelling of American history as modernism’s end. At its core is Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer, rendered in all his complications as savior and sinner, redeemer and rebel. Just try and distill the detailed rendering of the famed theoretical physicist and creator of the atomic bomb into a neat fable.

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Moviegoers are only eight days out now from the movie event of the summer: the “Barbie“/”Oppenheimer” double feature that’s possible after both films hit theaters on July 21. Is it “Barbienheimer”? “OppenBarbie”? Doesn’t matter: it’s likely either Greta Gerwig or Christopher Nolan‘s latest films will be crowned 2023’s Summer Movie by the time next weekend is over. So why not see both on the same day or at least during that same weekend?

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Next month, Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” faces off against Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie” on its opening weekend, a showdown that very well may christen the summer’s biggest movie. In “Barbie,” moviegoers know what to expect, a smart, quippy film from Gerwig with a meta twist on its subject. But Variety reports (via Wired) that Nolan has a warning for viewers of his latest: “it’s kind of a horror movie,” and an “intense experience.”

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“Some people leave the movie absolutely devastated,” Nolan told Wired Magazine about early screenings he had for “Oppenheimer.” “They can’t speak.

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Next month, the battle between summer blockbusters gets fully underway, with “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” “Barbie,” and Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” slugging it out for box office supremacy. And to spice things up, “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” go toe-to-toe for their theatrical debuts, opening up the same weekend. So will Nolan’s latest, and his first Rated-R film since 2002’s “Insomnia“ best Greta Gerwig‘s Mattel team-up with Margot Robbie.

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